Her special role in the group is to create models to predict the behavior of world powers (the connection between these two things is not explained, just assumed). I REALLY wanted to like this book.īut the main character is supposed to be a math whiz. Myers was a lovely person, and an amazing advocate for teens and reading.
And the quot I REALLY wanted this to be good.īut I started reading-with-reluctance when I got to the following line on page 104: But the main character is supposed to be a math whiz. But I started reading-with-reluctance when I got to the following line on page 104: "It was guy stuff, but it sounded good." srsly. Whether it was fully "completed" or still a work in progress is debatable.more * = It was published two months after his death. If you're looking for late-period Myers, two better options are 2013's Darius and Twig and 2010's National Book Award finalist Lockdown. Walter Dean Myers has over 100 published books. Then I bailed to Myers's 1999 book Monster, which was the first recipient of the Printz Award. I read just to the point where I was more interested to see if the story would ever got any better, so I bailed to a review section that told me universally that it wouldn't. Does it seem like I read the whole book? Well, I didn't. Ambitious dystopian scope with too-large ensemble of same-ish rogue characters, all with several pages of biographical details combined with next-to-no actual characterization.
Walter Dean Myers's last completed* YA novel before he passed away at age 76. I've heard that this author's past works are WAY better, so it's not like I'm never going to give his novels another shot. I felt lost most of the time and kept asking, "What just happened?" I thought that this would be a great read to have some diversity included in it, but they came off rather stereotypically. I've heard that this author's past works are WAY better, so it's not like I'm nev Re-rating this because after some thought, the book didn't really have a cohesive storyline?! Like, they're trying to take down a big evil corporation thing and a terrorist, but, like, things happen but it not really. Re-rating this because after some thought, the book didn't really have a cohesive storyline?! Like, they're trying to take down a big evil corporation thing and a terrorist, but, like, things happen but it not really. But how will Sayeed, warlord and terrorist, fit into the equation?. Dahlia, a computer whiz, joins forces with an ex-rocker, an ex-con, a chess prodigy, an ex-athlete, and a soldier wannabe. And the C-8, a consortium of giant companies, control global access to finance, media, food, water, and energy resources-and they are only getting bigger and even more cutthroat. The Gaters live in closed safe communities, protected from the Sturmers, mercenary thugs. Teens, armed only with their ideals, must wage war on the power elite.ĭahlia is a Low Gater: a sheep in a storm, struggling to survive completely on her own. Dahlia is a Low Gater: a sheep in a storm, struggling to survive completely on Young heroes decide that they are not too young or too powerless to change their world in this gripping, futuristic young adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Award–winning Monster. Teens, armed only with their ideals, must wage war on the power elite. Young heroes decide that they are not too young or too powerless to change their world in this gripping, futuristic young adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Award–winning Monster.
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